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Photo for Saturday, November 10 ~ 2007
I visited this very popular winery where I live with a friend that was visiting from Vernon, B.C.
Summerhill Winery, Kelowna, B.C.
or the Pyramid Winery.
The pyramids of Giza. Note how close they are to Cairo. Scenes from Cairo.
Taken during Jan. 2011 trip to Egypt.
Arrive by bus and be prepared to walk the gauntlet of vendors. They are persistent but pleasant. Best bet is to walk fast and look down.
A nacamptis pyramidalis. An orchid that flourishes on chalk and limestone grassland.The scent is foxy with a distinct musky overtone.[ apparently].
Another from the slide archive.
I took this back in the 1980's, when I was responsible for the Pyramid Glasshouse at the Sydney Botanic Gardens.
I like the bluish, cold, hard look of the image in contrast to the collection of soft tropical plants living in the heated interior.
Smooth white limestone was originally used on the outside of the pyramids. These have mainly eroded away over time, but you can see them on the top of one pyramid. Here they've replaced a few on the bottom level to show how it once looked.
A picture of the glass pyramid in the middle of the Louvre. This pyramid also serves as the entrance to the building itself.More on the Louvre
made for a school project that turned out to be an epic fail on the classes part. no one knew who pyramid head was...
The Satellite Pyramid which forms part of the Pyramid Complex of Sneferu's Bent Pyramid, as seen from the south-east corner of the latter monument; it is actually aligned with the centre of the Bent Pyramid's southern face.
Although such dummy tombs had been known since the time of Netjer-ikhet Djoser's Step Pyramid, at Saqqara, with its South Tomb, their actual purpose within the funerary rituals & beliefs is still subject to debate.
(I should admit that, despite having been visiting Dashur since the late 1990's, this is the first time I'd managed to walk completely around the base of the Bent Pyramid & seen its satellite.)